Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not yet been achieved in reality...Preferences tend to attack one form of discrimination with another...Affirmative action encourages a victim-focused identity, and sends the message that there is more power in our past suffering than in our present achievements.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.

My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

My individuality is my gift to my people.